The F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System’s next generation interface provides pilots with intuitive access to vast quantities of flight, tactical, and sensor information for advanced situational awareness, precision and safety.

In addition to standard HMD capabilities offered by other systems, HMDS fully utilizes the advanced avionics architecture of the F-35 and provides the pilot video with imagery in day or night conditions. Consequently, the F-35 is the first tactical fighter jet …

The F-35 HMD, by virtue of its precise head- tracking capability and low-latency graphics processing, also provides the pilot with a virtual Head-Up Display (HUD). As a result, the F-35 is the first tactical fighter jet in 50 years to fly without a HUD.

The F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS) provides a next-generation user interface that integrates the pilot more tightly than ever into the aircraft’s avionics, with more than 10,000 flight hours of operational use.

The F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System gives pilots the information they need at the speed of flight. Equipped with a sensor package integrated into the skin of each F-35 Lightning, each HMDS allows pilots to “see through the plane”, providing a 360˚ view.

The F-35 is the first modern fighter to use an HMD to the exclusion of a HUD. The HMD projects two identical images onto the visor, one for each eye, focused at infinity. HUD vector symbology as well as sensor video is projected onto the visor.

Feb 26, 2024 · The F-35 Gen III HMDS is the world's most advanced helmet-mounted display system. Its next-generation user interface serves as a pilot's primary display system, providing them with intuitive access to vital flight, tactical and sensor information day or night.

Jun 15, 2022 · Weighing in at around five pounds, this system hosts an on-visor, bi-optical Heads-Up Display (HUD) to include digital night vision and imagery overlay from the aircraft’s Distributed Aperture System (DAS), set to each pilot’s interpupillary distance for optimal display quality.

Sep 14, 2015 · Built by defense contractor Rockwell Collins over the past five years, the new F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System takes the cockpit’s heads-up display (HUD) and moves it...

Nov 9, 2018 · The F-35 Gen III Helmet is the most advanced helmet-mounted display (HMD) in the world. It was created by Rockwell Collins, in concert with Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor responsible for making the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter plane that pairs with this advanced helmet.